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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over Born Outside Singapore by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Year of First Arrival and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5955

Last updated 25 days ago (15 Aug 2026)

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverBornOutsideSingaporebyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeYearofFirstArrivalandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 2.8 KB)

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(Total) Males
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(Total) Females
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(Before 1941) Total
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(Before 1941) Males
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(Before 1941) Females
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(1941 - 1950) Total
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(1941 - 1950) Males
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(1941 - 1950) Females
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(1951 - 1960) Total
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(1951 - 1960) Males
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(1951 - 1960) Females
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(1961 - 1970) Total
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(1961 - 1970) Males
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(1961 - 1970) Females
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(1971 - 1980) Total
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(1971 - 1980) Males
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(1971 - 1980) Females
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(1981 - 1990) Total
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(1981 - 1990) Males
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(1981 - 1990) Females
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(1991 - 2000) Total
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(1991 - 2000) Males
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(1991 - 2000) Females
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Total5215692286022929674720321842253615646628142283247568835125405635177621200305766268727813348748978437423523611379655705680909
English876404419143449212111889335215302321928738491438248609419744121345974606000224401106111379270571234914708
Mandarin191143802991108443944220617389387535840292012710627950118975814110834318091365918149451161688428232617852342338362
Chinese Dialects155241634579178435519153382018129836133911644528569103661820314357493694201073641826554132595834742422965940913557
Hokkien4982620392294341064245266116999648375158985340785775558720173570445716072850404015972443525317313522
Teochew2901411226177889142390752347594339841966692238343092336815152212163268909482676811088132956
Cantonese5142521509299169100348456176427258138456257222640314513153129824079182822517237351537221381363447469
Other Chinese Dialects249751032914646663534203215582025753245576816804088192157413479854215631035456579281212021610
Malay3630115662206393643194317007898410437941079549885807542721143313269596817272149627152236939182775
Indian Languages4688923107237821893111977440112235177773224188313342471732251536021356224657332571316220080990510175
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2a60eac3f0686479d1ee741545b50063"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over Born Outside Singapore by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Year of First Arrival and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2a60eac3f0686479d1ee741545b50063/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)